Bangladesh

Burma’s bloody persecution of Rohingyas demands a US response

Abdul Malik Mujahid · July 26, 2018 4:30 am

A National Guard troop watches over Rio Grande River on the border in Roma, Texas.

Apprehensions of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh spiking in Texas

Anna Giaritelli · July 12, 2018 6:07 pm

In this May 6, 2018, photo, internally displaced ethnic Kachins rest at their hut in compound of Trinity Baptist Church refugee camp in Myitkyina, Kachin State, northern Myanmar. Myanmar's army, notorious for perpetrating violence that drove 700,000 Muslim ethnic Rohingyas to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, now stands accused of fostering a similar humanitarian crisis in the country's north, where it battles guerrillas of the Christian Kachin minority.

Silently, Burma is now expelling Rohingyas from its detention camps

Malik Mujahid · May 20, 2018 4:00 am

A U.S. Border Patrol officer stands guard near a drain hole, used as an illegal entrance to U.S., in the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, late Monday, June 29, 2009.

Bangladeshis paying drug cartel up to $27,000 to be smuggled into the US

Anna Giaritelli · April 18, 2018 8:58 pm

The situation is dire, with children accounting for a majority of the suffering in Myanmar. (Eric Lee)

US must pressure Myanmar as exploitation of refugee children escalates

Eric Lee · March 9, 2018 5:01 am

This May 24, 2017 file photo shows the newly built wall near Cilvegozu border gate in Reyhanli, at the Turkey-Syria border. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s border wall is standard practice in other parts of the world

Michael Rubin · January 23, 2018 6:01 pm

Rohingya refugees stand and watch as others receive relief material at Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Beltway Confidential

How Trump can save the Rohingya Muslims

Tom Rogan · January 16, 2018 5:31 pm

It's a very poor, but quite stable, country. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Beltway Confidential

Condemn the New York attacker, but respect Bangladesh

Tom Rogan · December 11, 2017 9:38 pm

We should now assume the Trump administration is considering sanctions on top Myanmar officials. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Beltway Confidential

Decrying ‘ethnic cleansing,’ Tillerson leads on the Rohingya crisis

Tom Rogan · November 22, 2017 4:45 pm

India Gate, a war memorial, is seen engulfed in smog in New Delhi, India. United Airlines suspends flight operations to New Delhi due to severe air pollution in the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Beltway Confidential

United Airlines won’t fly you to New Delhi because of the pollution — a self-solving problem

Tim Worstall · November 13, 2017 1:57 pm

Nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state and arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25 to avoid persecution that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

President Trump, heed the plight of the Rohingya

Murat Guzel · October 29, 2017 4:01 am

It's time for US diplomatic leadership. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Beltway Confidential

Why and how the US must confront Burma’s Rohingya genocide

Tom Rogan · October 5, 2017 5:20 pm